#nation

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#compensate #console #given #him #imagination

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood... ↗

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#passion #sexual #imagination

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. ↗

— Anatole France

#imagination

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#imagination

I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#imagination

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#imagination

I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine he does when we're not together." "And what is that?" prodded the stout man. "He's a superhero who saves people in danger, because he saved me and my brother from dying in a fire a couple of years ago. Noah is better than Batman." The crowd chuckled. "I love you, too, lil'bro. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#katie-mcgarry #little-brother #noah-hutchins #pushing-the-limits #sweet

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#imagination #inspiration #imagination

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#feelings #reality #imagination

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#imagination